{"product_id":"glico-pocky-chocolate","title":"Glico Japanese Pocky Chocolate Sticks — 2 Packs","description":"\u003cp\u003eThin wheat biscuit sticks under a real chocolate coating, with a snap you can hear: the biscuit underneath is toasty and faintly salty, which is the half worth paying attention to. This is the Japanese-made box, and its ingredient list names cacao mass (ground cocoa beans), cocoa butter and fermented butter. Buy it if you want the Pocky you remember from Japan; if you just want a cheap chocolate stick for a lunchbox, the supermarket carries one for a fraction of this and it will do that job fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pack reads ポッキーチョコレート: \u003cem\u003epok-kee choco-rey-to\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNot the same recipe as the supermarket box.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Pocky Australian supermarkets sell is made in Thailand: every line of it that states an origin says so on Coles' own product pages. On the export pack whose full panel we could read, the coating is not called chocolate at all but \u003cem\u003echocolate flavoured cream\u003c\/em\u003e, built on palm and rapeseed oils with no cocoa butter in it. This one is made in Japan, which is what a returning traveller is noticing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe recipe changed in September 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e, for the first time in ten years. It is still argued over in Japan, and people divide sharply over whether the result is better than what they remember. Worth knowing before you decide your memory is wrong.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eChill it before you eat it.\u003c\/strong\u003e Cold chocolate goes hard and snaps instead of smearing, and the pack does not tell you. It is the one piece of handling advice worth having with these.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt will not enjoy a Sydney summer.\u003c\/strong\u003e Glico's own instruction is to keep it below 28°C, and there is chocolate on the outside where the heat reaches it first. In hot weather expect to want it in the fridge, and expect a hot-day delivery to arrive softer than it left.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains \u003cstrong\u003emilk, wheat and soy\u003c\/strong\u003e. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a biscuit stick, not a pretzel in the salty-knot sense. Glico prints プレッツェル on the box, meaning the thin baked wheat stick, not the twisted bar-snack kind. It is not Pepero, which is a Korean lookalike made by Lotte, and not Mikado, which is what Glico calls Pocky in Europe. Inside the box are two sealed packs rather than one open tray, which is what makes it easy to take somewhere and open one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48296513863906,"sku":"SH-SNK-0040","price":5.1,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/glico-pocky-chocolate-red-box.webp?v=1788499355","url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/products\/glico-pocky-chocolate","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}